I love it when I stumble upon a new feature in a piece of software that makes my life easier. I hope you do too.
That’s why I’m going to take a bit to go over some of the useful things I’ve been finding lately.
Hack Faster with Secret Features
March 15th, 2010
Strips Postmortem
January 10th, 2010
During the summer of 2009 I made a big decision. It was early in the academic term and I had just received my first midterm mark.
It was 30%.
Never in the history of my academic career had I received a midterm mark below 50%, but this 30% wasn’t a shock to me. I had been spending nearly all of my time outside of the classroom working on what would soon be one of my largest projects to date, the Strips platform.
When I saw the failed mark on my midterm I took some time to think, as anyone should do when this sort of thing happens. I came to the conclusion that I had reached a point in my academic career where I strongly believed that I had the chops to build something, and that I needed to do it right then.
So I took the plunge. I dropped three of my four courses and spent the next three months working full time on the Strips platform.
This is its post-mortem, and I hope to leave this as a note to myself and anyone else who has the desire to build something.
Hip me to the Haps
December 10th, 2009
I’m a victim of trends and it seems that some of my friends have been keeping rather good logs of their day-to-day activities. It’s about time I start contributing to this “internet” contraption all proper-like.
I’ll quickly explain where the hell the name of this blog came from. I took part in a musical titled Leader of the Pack during my 12th year of education. Thanks to Google’s book scraping, I can actually point you to the exact line I elocuted while crossing right, downstage of Jeff. I had one line and I got to wear cool shades. It was good times.
I think I may write my blog posts like my git commits. Mostly atomic, but oftentimes a ménage à trois of sorts. Sometimes I might cherry-pick posts from other blogs of mine, and sometimes I might, gods forbid, rewrite history. I’ll try to keep that last one down to a minimum.